Do you know how you got here? What are your origins?

@FeetAreFantastic I read once that house dust is composed chiefly of human skin cells and dust from meteorites. You and stardust. I don't dust anymore. I'm afraid I'll disturb the rest of somebody I knew.

@Mamapolo2016 you must have an incredible dirty house by now 🤧

I do, but it's full of friends. And stardust.

@Mamapolo2016 don't you get rashes from the dust mites? do you think it's more meteorite dust than regular road dust?

I don't know. I don't want to know. I like the idea of stardust and friends peacefully sleeping on tufts of Corgi fur.

@Mamapolo2016 it also gives you a great excuse for not keeping your house clean ;-)

Are you a doctor or a government inspector or something? Breathe easy. I was mostly funnin'.

@Mamapolo2016 or wear a 😷 when visiting you 🤗 of course i know you were just making a joke - who would admit to being lazy about keeping their own home clean?

good point. I'm very tired and going to bed now before I get in an accidental war. I THOUGHT you were teasing but then I started to wonder...maybe it's guilt. I need to vacuum tomorrow.

@Mamapolo2016 good - otherwise you could get allergies - or worse 🤢 anyway sorry didn't want to start you on guilt trip 🤗

@FeetAreFantastic We all come from the stars. That's where the elements heavier than hydrogen that make up everything come from.

@suzie1960 so before the stars we were just hydrogen?

@newbie Hydrogen is the simplest element, just one proton surrounded by one electron. Our own star (the Sun) fuses hydrogen to helium (two protons and two neutrons surrounded by two electrons) releasing energy in the process. That energy comes from the small mass loss (an atom of helium has slightly less mass than the four atoms of hydrogen that are fused together to make it.) according to E=mc^2. Larger stars fuse hydrogen and other small atoms to larger atoms such as carbon, oxygen etc.

Our sun isn't very big as stars go - it only fuses about 700 million tonnes of hydrogen to helium per second. About 4 million tonnes of that is converted to energy giving a power output of about 400 million, million, million, million Watts. ;)

@suzie1960 so i repeat my question: so before the stars there was only hydrogen?

sorry if it's too obvious to you, but it's new to me 🤔

@newbie Sorry I wasn't clear. Hydrogen atoms came together to form stars. Before hydrogen there were only the "fundamental" particles (quarks, leptons, and bosons). Those fundamental particles are the building blocks of "hadrons", amongst which are protons and neutrons.

So, before the stars the biggest/heaviest element was hydrogen.

@suzie1960 oh ok - thanks! 😊